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Learn the basics of robotic engineering with this Dr. Toy award-winning robotic arm kit. Control five motors and five joints using the five-switch gearbox. It grips, moves its “wrist” up and down 120 degrees, extends its “elbow,” rotates, reaches, and lifts. Easy-to-follow, illustrated instructions pave the way for successful kit-building for budding mechanical engineers.

Learn to build a real twin overhead-cam V-8 engine model with step-by-step instructions from Haynes, the leading publisher of car-repair manuals. Look under the hood of the world’s sleekest sports cars, and this is the engine you’re likely to find. Give the chrome parts a shine and rev the motor for realistic ignition sounds.

Intro to Engineering welcomes young children to the field of engineering with 25 experiments and building projects in five sections. By engaging in hands-on activities, children will learn how engineers apply their scientific and technical knowledge to design machines and devices.

Despite what the toy aisle might suggest, girls aren’t only interested in pink princesses. Building, inventing, and storytelling are part of creative play for all kids. GoldieBlox brings together storytelling and spatial skills to create building kits that appeal to girls and boys alike. Each GoldieBlox kit centers on a story about a girl named Goldie and helps kids develop targeted skills in the STEM disciplines: science, technology, engineering, and math. In this award-winning debut story, kids help Goldie build a belt drive machine, learning and playing as they go.

When we tested this construction learning kit, our pint-size volunteers spent hours honing their mechanical reasoning and creativity skills while building an endless series of crazy creatures. Using motorized gears, springs, flashing lights, glow-in-the-dark eyes, and chomping teeth, kids can construct any of four suggested Wigglers or stretch their imaginations inventing new ones.

Build your own motorized vehicles and machines and control them with a wireless remote control unit. A unique six button infrared remote allows you to control three different motors simultaneously, moving each of them forward or in reverse, with easy-to-activate touch sensors. The three motors can be combined to make complex vehicles and machines in numerous configurations limited only by your imagination.

Gyroscopes are used in countless devices, from smartphones, tablets, and video game controllers to airplanes and space telescopes. With this kit, young engineers can explore the astonishing powers of the gyroscope by building seven motorized models, including a robot that can balance on two linear wheels and move along a tightrope!

Remote control machines that you make yourself! This deluxe machine-making kit helps young engineers build 20 different types of machines. With 155 building pieces and three independent motors, you are only limited by your imagination. Use the comprehensive instruction book to make a three-wheeled car, a drilling machine, a crane, and more. Once you master the process, start building new machines of your own design. The wireless, six-button infrared remote allows you to move the three motors simultaneously, and easy-to-activate touch sensors let you move your machines forward or in reverse. Full-time customer and tech support is on deck to help.

This unique optical construction kit lets you build your own microscopes, telescopes, and binoculars. Young scientists will get the scoop on how microscopes and telescopes work by building their own out of simple, reconfigurable parts.

A real, working hovercraft is just one of the 10 models you can build in this kit that teaches about pressure and airflow. Learn how even though air is invisible, it still has mass and can support very heavy objects under the right circumstances. Experiment with propellers and impellers, and build a hovercraft that will glide over smooth floors or flat water.

The TK2 scope is here to take you on a guided journey through the microscopic world, revealing its hidden creatures and unseen structures. First things first: You’ll learn how to use the microscope and all of its parts. Use the prepared slides to become familiar with using your scope for close-up viewing. Now, you’re ready to take off on a guided investigation of plant and animal specimens that you gather and prepare yourself. This kit gives you the tools, knowledge, and skills you need to view virtually any specimen you can find.

Build wind-powered generators to energize your electric vehicles and charge your rechargeable batteries. The wind spins the turbine, which turns an electric generator, which in turn charges your rechargeable AA batteries (not included). You can then use those wind-charged batteries to power the model vehicles you build with our kit. The six models include a glider, sail car, jet car, tractor, racecar, and tricycle.

Build your own models powered by air and water pressure to learn about the laws of physics. This unique kit allows you to build two different air-and-water-powered systems: water-jet propelled cars and hydro-pneumo powered engines (which simply means air pressure and water pressure). The hydro-pneumo system uses a self-contained air-and-water turbine system as a motor.

Color-coded components make experimenting with simple circuit boards fun and easy. Includes step-by-step instructions for 63 hands-on projects, including a disk-shooting rover, a flickering metronome, and a car alarm. The plastic components snap together with no glue needed.

Kids can become robotic engineersno computer requiredwith this simple, programmable roving robot helper. There are no remote controls; instead, kids give the robot instructions, test it, and then send it off to deliver a recorded message, carry a drink, bring a treat to a pet, guard a bedroom, or just roam around.

Fiber optics, color-changing LEDs, strobe lightslearn about engineering and optics while you create your own light and magic show. More than 55 parts combine to create 175 projects, all illustrated in the step-by-step manual. You can even connect any MP3 player and watch the lights dance to the beat. The kit also includes a glow-in-the-dark flying fan and an infrared detector. No tools required.

K’nex building systems put engineering education into action as kids use the dynamic, open-ended sets to build cool, motorized gadgets. Each set of three robo-creaturesSmash, Sting, and Strikecomes with more than 150 parts and motors that enable unique movements. Combine kits or add on to existing K’nex systems to build even bigger robots of your own creation.

Explore the cutting edge of automotive technology with this futuristic car. Construct the sleek, high-tech car, and then use your tablet or smartphone to control the car’s motorized wheels and steer it in any direction. On your device’s screen, watch the car as it drives through a virtual, augmented reality cityscape. Use the free downloadable app to script a simple program that instructs your car to automatically follow a predetermined course through your city.

Nothing stands in the way of the award-winning T-Rex Skid Loader. Chomping teeth, snapping jaw, and segmented swinging tail make this demolition monster the most fearsome member of the Dino Construction Crew. Through sand, dirt, rocks, and water, this vehicle is all kid-powered. Instead of regular tire tracks, T-Rex leaves pre-historic footprints, making it a great friend to bring along on beach trips and outdoor adventures. With no electric parts or batteries, T-Rex is designed strong and tough for years of imaginative play. For use inside, outside, or wherever the fun takes youno metal parts means no rust, just rinse clean and get right back to work to the excavation site.

Jump right into the science of springs with the extraordinary Jumperbot. Using the easy-to-follow instructions, robotics enthusiasts can build seven different types of robots. By experimenting with the coil spring mechanism, you can see how the machine works, all while learning about elasticity, potential and kinetic energy, spring constants, cams, and linkages. Watch your creation crouch, coil, and leap. Make a car moved by spiral-shaped wheels, build a side-walking crab, and design your own whirl-a-gig to learn about force, physics, mass, and weight. As you work, you’ll learn how springs and linkages work in real machines. This kit comes with 100 building pieces and a 24-page instruction manual with step-by-step instructions.

There is more to this little robot than meets the eye! This solar-powered robot lets budding green energy pioneers and robotic engineers build a range of silly creatures and traveling vehicles. Sort all the kit parts into the labeled baggies to make each build a breeze. And then start by building the drive box, aka the robot’s “head.” Kids can build one robot and easily change to another, zipping from turtle-bots to boat-bots, slither-bots to zombie-bots. With two skill levels, builders begin with amusing creatures and then challenge themselves with more complex robotic forms.

This award-winning toy truck is part bulldozer, part triceratops, and hours of tough and tumble fun. Dirt and sand don’t stand a chance against the foreman of the Dino Construction crew. Made entirely out of plastic, it goes from backyard to beach with ease and rinses clean with no fear of rusting. With a real steering wheel inside the cab, little builders can direct the Dino truck wherever their imagination takes them. Instead of bulldozer tracks, this mean machine leaves behind dinosaur footprints. Great for indoor and outdoor fun. Play-powered, so no batteries required!

This multidirectional, radio-controlled UFO is fully assembled and ready to fly. Gyroscopic action keeps the motor stable while the sphere turns and dips, just like in unmanned aerial vehicles. The safety cage prevents damage to the blades while you get the hang of flight, and to your home when the inevitable crashes happen. The rechargeable lithium battery powers a 5-minute flight on a 30-minute charge.